TEXT OF ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 7

TEXT OF ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT

Recognition of Actual Situation in China

Britain Abandons Anti-Japanese Measures

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 1.18 a.iu. LONDON, July 24. The official test of the Craigic-Arita agreement is as follows: "His Majesty’s Government recognises the actual situation in China where large-scale hostilities are in progress, and notes that as long as that state of affairs continues, the Japanese forces in China have special requirements for the purpose of safeguarding their own security and maintaining public order in the regions under their control, and have to suppress or remove any acts or causes as will obstruct them or benefit their enemy. "His Majesty's Government has no intention of countenancing any acts or measures prejudicial to the settlement of the above-mentioned objects by the Japanese forces and takes this opportunity to confirm its policy in this respect by making plain to the British authorities and British nationals in China that they should refrain from such acts and measures.” A Tokio communique says the Anglo-Japancse Conference discussed matters relating to security and public order in Tientsin and found a number of points whereon the clarification of details was necessary. These will be discussed by a committee consisting of Major-General Piggott, Mr. Tanaka and Major Ohta to-morrow.